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May 24, 2008 · Filed under Athletic Gear
Carmen Electra is set to have her own line of home stripper poles designed to help women “get in the best shape of their life.”
The former Baywatch babe, now 36, expressed her thrill about her exercise product to FOX News: “I am so excited to have a new pole coming out, a portable stripper pole. The great thing about my portable pole is you can put it in your own living room or you can do the workout in your bedroom. No one has to see you do it. It’s up to you — you can perform for your husband or boyfriend, or do it more as a workout and focus on that.”
The stripper pole is said to be basically a raunchy exercise regime, which will “also have women embracing their female prowess.”
October 13, 2007 · Filed under Apparel, Athletic Gear
Eighteen-year-old Vanessa Hudgens has been tapped as the new spokesperson for “Red by Marc Ecko,” a contemporary young women’s apparel and footwear collection.
The “High School Musical” star, who’s barely pulling herself out of scandals involving her naked pictures on the Web and being sued by her lawyer, will feature in the Fall 2007, Holiday, and Spring 2008 ad campaigns.
Sources said that high school graduate Vanessa celebrated her graduation backstage during the photo shoot. Vanessa’s mom, her little sister, Stella, and her co-star Ashley Tisdale were on hand for a cake from Sweet Lady Jane in LA and coffee treats from Starbucks.
Founder and chief creative officer of Marc Ecko Enterprises Marc Ecko, who tapped the Neutrogena spokeswoman for “Red by Marc Ecko”, offered an enthusiastic brand of support.
“More power to her,” Ecko commented regarding her her latest nude photo fallout. “She made a mistake and has apologized for it. I’m just glad no one’s leaked the pictures of me in all of my naked glory.”
Besides starring in the ad campaign for the sportswear retailer, Vanessa Hudgens has reportedly signed on for “High School Musical 3″, after having finished filming “High School Musical 2″ earlier this year in Utah. She is seen as the shy, intelligent Gabriella Montez in the film, which premiered on the Disney Channel in August.
July 28, 2007 · Filed under Athletic Gear, Beach/Swim Wear
Most of you might recall Eva Longoria’s camapign for Bebe Sport that was launched March this year. It’s about time we saw glimpses of the photoshoots, and we’re not going to be disappointed.
The Desperate Housewives star, 32, has apparently joined the Hollywood A-list, joining celebs like David and Victoria Beckham at a welcome party thrown by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but that hasn’t stopped her working hard at becoming the new face of Bebe Sport.
Some might say the ads are ‘flirty’, but then doesn’t that go rather well Eva’s character as a model in Desperate Housewives? Would that be what Bebe intended to portray? Well, sometimes the image is all that counts.
Enjoy some of the sultry photos for an upcoming campaign for Bebe where Eva poses in B&W swimsuits and sky-high heels and sidelining up to semi-clad sportsmen.
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June 8, 2007 · Filed under Apparel, Athletic Gear, Fashion & Makeup, General
Talk fashion and talk brand names. Talk style and talk choice. Talk service and talk free worldwide shipping. Talk kickstime.com.
Kickstime.com is an online company specializing in clothing, shoes and accessories for men, women and kids. And we’re talking only about famous brands here—the product range is as wide a you can imagine—starting off with Bapesta Bathing Ape, LRG, Evisu and True Religion, BBC Ice Cream, Red Monkey, Seven, Rock & Republic… and more in jeans.
I found the shoes range to be exhaustive. One of the fun deals of shopping online at kickstime.com is that you get to read a little ‘history’ of the product you’re going to buy, and since they’re all famous names, they all have a story!
The company has recently added new Gucci shoes & Prada boots, as well as a complete range of all the famous Nike’s. Now, are you wondering about the authenticity of the products?
The FAQ section on the website claims that the products are factory variant and not authentic. It also claims that while the products are replicas, all the symbols, colors and materials are all exact matches to the originals, with the same packing.
Kickstime.com charges no shipping & handling (includes international orders), no tax, no hidden fees, and the orders are shipped the same day …. plus, at the moment, they’re holding a ‘blow-out’ sale; everything at $79.95. You can even order on the toll-free phone 1-866-433-4487.
May 23, 2007 · Filed under Apparel, Athletic Gear, Fashion Line
Contemporary sportswear designer Jill Stuart has announced Lindsay Lohan will be the face of its print ad campaign, which will hit August magazines and run through November. The campaign marks the first time Jill Stuart has chosen a celebrity for her ads.
“I can’t say enough fantastic things about Lindsay,” Stuart said of her choice to go with the starlet rather than a model. “She is sexy and smart, exactly what the Jill Stuart woman embodies.”
The campaign, which was shot in Tokyo by Mario Sorrenti, highlights Lohan in a series of B&W photographs modeling the entire Jill Stuart assortment from the higher-end Jill Stuart line, the Jill by Jill Stuart collection and the handbags, which will launch in top department and specialty stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s and Nordstromnext month.
The ads showcase Lohan in a sensual state, where she’s in a bed, hugging the Emelle tote in black patent leather and wearing nothing much more than a sequin miniskirt.
“Lindsay resonates with the contemporary consumer on many levels,” said Tim Schifter, chairman and CEO of Schifter & Partners, the accessories firm that holds the license for Jill Stuart handbags and small leather goods. “Mario’s photographs capture Lindsay’s sensual beauty and Jill’s modern fashion, and his choice of black and white adds glamour and intrigue to the images.”
Related post: Lindsay On a Roll
May 13, 2007 · Filed under Athletic Gear, Beach/Swim Wear, Cosmetics, F & B, Fashion & Makeup, Jewelry, Lingerie, Luggage, Shopping / Online, Travel, Watches
To begin with, the bottom line first: You can’t go wrong with Twenga. That is, even if you tried.
Trust me, this shopping search engine is ALIVE! I’m inclined to say this because I began a search with a very rough mental sketch of what I needed – and Twenga did the rest. At each step of the search, I was offered user-friendly options making it effortless to zero in on what I wanted.
Twenga, a UK based shopping search engine propelled by ‘proprietary crawl technology’, constantly updates its database and hence is able to offer the best shopping deals to users.
The two prominent features on the home page category bar are ‘Brands’ and ‘Top Deals.’ If you’re a die-hard fan of a certain brand, you can then just visit that brand’s pages and select what you need. On the other hand, if you love special offers, the ‘Top Deals’ link takes you to over 3,500 discounts, promotions, clearance sales, etc. from Twenga’s 3,000 merchants!
The category range is mind-blogging, and the products listed in each, exhaustive. I wanted to explore what was new in digital cameras and to say the least, I was amazed with the reaults page that offered a choice of about 3,400 digital cameras of 62 brands from 127 shops! And the options to narrow down the search included stores, brands, resolutions, types, screen size and budget. Now, is that choice, or is that choice?
The Anatomy of a Twenga Search Results Page
Perhaps the options you find in a typical search results page (in this case, my search for a treadmill, which I’d been planning on for quite some time) could be best described with a screenshot of the page.
From the sports > fitness link, I visited the treadmills area which looked like this:
LEGEND
1 Price Drops – Lists offers with reduced prices
2 Store Names – Check out only certain stores
3 Brands – Lists products only from your favourite brand
4 Budget – Sorts according to price range selected by you
5 Refine your search (within search)
6 Sort by Popularity, Price Low to High or Price High to Low
7 Price Alert – Get notified by email of any changes in price
8 See Offer – Takes you to the merchant product page which offers complete specifications, alternatives, accessories and related items
9 More search pages!
You can find just about anything you need on Twenga. The fashion link leads to a page bundled with hundreds of bags and leather goods, fashion accessories, women’s skirts, dresses, trousers and lingerie and and suits and blazers for men, as well as polos, T-shirts, underwear, boots and miscellaneous fashion.
The computers section yields just about everything from laptops and PC’s to hi-tech accessories, wi-fi and software. Matter of fact, whether it be audio-video, household appliances, furniture, gardening, family, jewellery, health & beauty , sports & leisure, automobiles or even gastronomy, Twenga makes the shopping experience fun, hassle-free and completely satisfying.
The Twenga website is edited by Twenga SA, a French-based company, and the services are currently available in France, UK, Spain and Italy.
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April 19, 2007 · Filed under Athletic Gear, Fashion Line
One of Hollywood’s favorite fashion icons, Sarah Jessica Parker is making the best use of Carrie Bradshaw of ‘Sex and the City’ to launch her own fashion line, called Bitten.
Here is the first official glimpse of advertising for ‘Bitten’ on bittensjp.com, with Parker, 41, sporting the tagline “Fashion is not a luxury, it’s a right.”
Parker has teamed up with Steve & Barry’s chain of sportswear shops to make this range of “high-quality, but affordably-priced, sportswear for women.” Everyone’s tight-lipped about the details of the collection — so much so that catwalkqueen.com, which published some initial pictures of the ‘Bitten’ range were contacted by Steve & Barry to remove the images.
But if you hold any truth to the rumours, the Bitten range will consist of of over 400 items including wool and cashmere sweaters, dresses, handbags and… you guessed it, shoes!
At a recent exclusive lunch for top fashion editors, Parker said: “High quality, luxurious clothes do not need to cost as much as we’ve been led to think.”
The line will make its debut on June 7th at various Steve & Barry’s stores.
Read about Sarah Jessica Parker’s fragrance for women: “Lovely” Says It All
March 30, 2007 · Filed under Athletic Gear
Desperate Housewives sexpot Eva Longoria shows off her athletic side in the new and the hottest yet Bebe Sport ad campaign launched Wednesday.
Says Eva, “I used to be an aerobics instructor so I really know what works well for that type of activity. I love how stylish and comfortable the collection is.”
She replaced Mischa Barton, because Bebe Sport figured Mischa was more bone than
meat and just couldn’t represent the bebe look attempting to appeal to a ‘modern, sexy, sophisticated, body-conscious woman who takes pride in her appearance’.
The campaign got a kick start at a party hosted by Cosmopolitan and Bebe to celebrate Eva as the new face of Bebe Sport held at the Skybar at the Mondrian Hotel on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
Longoria in her skivvies? Hmm…… Eva in her skivvies might be just the right inspiration to get some Bebe gear and work up some fasionable sweat!
March 18, 2007 · Filed under Athletic Gear
Hollywood “It” girl Scarlett Johansson put on her running shoes and sweats to launch REEBOK’s latest celebrity athletic line at Nordstrom department stores.
The new “Scarlett ‘Hearts’ Rbk” collection comes as a stylish collaboration between the “world’s sexiest woman” (in a poll of readers by FHM magazine) and the active wear brand.
“I had thought about doing a cotton line for a while and then was coincidentally approached by Reebok to do a casual lifestyle collection,” she said, wearing a blue sweat top with pretty heart cutouts in back and black leggings. “It seemed like the perfect combination.”
The Scarlett “Hearts” Rbk collection, in stores now, was inspired by the decade that launched aerobics headbands and scrunchy socks.
The line features items such as; candy-colored racer tanks, hooded sweatshirt tunics, 1980s-inspired track jackets and baseball raglans with heart embossing, as well as a collection of retro looking athletic shoes in neon colors. Even the running shoes have an old-school feel with their blue and red vinyl sides and yellow or white stripes.
The “Black Dahlia” and “Match Point” star said she personally pawed through jackets and sneakers at vintage store racks to find the colors and styles she was looking for.
“We did a lot of shopping. I wanted to feel like I was designing for my friends.”
The shoes and track jackets retail for $89.99 while racerback tanks and tunics range from $39.99 to $99.99. So far, the feedback has been … shall we say, ‘hearty’?
